Can I get a signed DPA / AVV?

Yes. We sign a standard German GDPR DPA (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag) on request - reach out from /sales. The text is the standard form most customer DPOs already know, no surprise clauses; we also accept your own paperwork if your legal team prefers their template. Reply time is within a working day. Most teams under 50 seats don't need one (the standard plan terms cover the legal posture); larger setups get a short signed addendum alongside.

How do I export my data?

Account settings → export. Returns a JSON archive containing every record you own, every file you uploaded, and the relevant audit-log entries. No support ticket, no waiting period, no fee. Same export shape works on every plan.

How do I delete my account?

Account settings → delete. Confirms once, then removes records, files, embeddings, and audit-log entries within 30 days. Stripe payment metadata stays as long as German tax law requires it (10 years), in line with §147 AO; everything else is gone.

Who are your subprocessors?

Two: Stripe (payment processing only, transferred under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) and our transactional mail relay (EU-hosted). Neither sees your records. The full list and what each one is allowed to touch lives at /privacy and /security.

Does Contact Book use Google Analytics or Meta Pixel?

No. No third-party analytics at all. Device + session metrics live in our own Postgres + Redis. The cookie banner that GA / Meta require doesn't apply because we don't load them - one fewer dialog between a visitor and the page they came for.

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Contact Book: the GDPR-friendly alternative to UpHabit

Plain-language privacy notice, standard German GDPR DPA available on request, self-serve export + delete.

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Julia YukovichCo-Founder + CEO

·January 9, 2026·

3 min read

GDPR isn't a checkbox - it's a posture. If you're moving off UpHabit because their AVV / DPA is opaque, Contact Book is what a clean alternative looks like: subprocessor list of two (Stripe + mail relay), self-serve export + delete from account settings, and a standard German GDPR DPA on request when your procurement team needs one.

At a glance

UpHabit's pitch is import everything and let reminders do the rest: it syncs your phone contacts, lets you tag and group them, and nudges you on a schedule. Contact Book takes the opposite starting point - a smaller circle you add on purpose, with a sentence of context per person, hosted in Germany with no trackers. Pick UpHabit if you want your whole address book pulled in and reminded against; pick us if you'd rather keep a thin, curated, private log of the relationships that genuinely matter.

GDPR posture

GDPR is a posture, not a checkbox

Three things matter under GDPR for a tool like this: (1) lawful basis for processing, (2) data subject rights (export, delete, port), and (3) the auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag / DPA chain. Contact Book treats them as engineering invariants, not legal optics. Lawful basis is the contract you sign with us. Subject rights are self-serve from your account settings - no support ticket required. The subprocessor list has two entries (Stripe + mail relay). A standard German GDPR DPA is available on request from /sales whenever your procurement team needs one - we don't charge for it and don't gate it behind a plan tier. Where UpHabit sits on each of these is the rest of this page.

Contact Book vs UpHabit: GDPR comparison

	Ours Contact Book	Theirs UpHabit
Auto-import phone contacts	Manual / file import
Per-person cadence reminders
Conversation log
Life events + gifts		Limited
Family / relationship graph
Curated-circle by default		Whole address book
Hosted in Germany
No third-party trackers		Unclear
Free tier

When to pick which

Pick Contact Book when

You'd rather curate a small circle than have your whole address book imported.

You want context per person - the log, the life events, the family graph - not just reminders.

Hosting in Germany and a no-tracking posture matter to you.

Pick UpHabit when

You want your entire phone address book pulled in and reminded against in one move.

Reminders are the whole job for you and you don't need a deep per-person record.

GDPR questions

What customer data-protection teams typically ask before signing a DPA.

Start with Contact Book

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.

Written by

Julia Yukovich

Co-Founder + CEO

Julia is one of the Co-Founders. She handles design, product direction, and most of the support replies that arrive in the morning.

julia.yukovich at aicuflow dot comLinkedIn